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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[REDSTATEWARD]

Bernie has made a lot of money pushing socialism.
I guess he can be expected to sit back and spend his profits fixing up his many, many houses.

By you, because it is what you would do.

That you mischaracterize where most of his wealth is from is typical.

He has a second home, like most Vermonters (huh?).  Leave him alone.

Keep counting.

[LarryBnDC]

Meanwhile COVID has claimed Alan Garfield, one of the 24 Count 'em 24! of the stars of my second favorite movie.ever, Nashville.

I remember him in ‘Cry Uncle’ when he was still Allen Goorwitz and played a seedy PI named Jack Masters who is memorably knocked unconscious mid coitus with a hooker. She tells the assailant, ‘Come on, get this prick out of me!’

[kiidcarter8]

Take fast food out of inner cities.

[LarryBnDC]

Good bye Bernie Sanders
Good Bye Medicare for All

Good riddance to both.

And now...

Checking in at the scorers table...

NUMBER FORTY FOUR...


BUUUUHHHHH ROCK OOOOOOOOOO- BAAAAAAMMMAAAA!


game on, motherfuckers.

[LarryBnDC]

Take fast food out of inner cities.

Slap yourself and take a seat.

[LarryBnDC]

Class issues are based in race.

No.  Class issues are based in economics.

The GOP has largely successfully conflated race and class to prevent class consciousness and block measures that would assist the poor.

Yeah. What I said.

[LarryBnDC]

Class issues are based in race.

No.  Class issues are based in economics.

The GOP has largely successfully conflated race and class to prevent class consciousness and block measures that would assist the poor.

It's about what markers are used.   In Britain,  accent was the principal class marker.  In the US,  it was melanin.   The dismal legacy of using a visible marker is with us still,  and persisted because Americans wanted to reject that snooty ol Brit class system.   Underlying it,  IMO,  was the idea that defining an "other" by genes was somehow more based in an objective  reality.   No more of that shallow Henry Higgins stuff about flowers girls and Hartford, Hereford,  and Hampshire. 

(edit to fix typo,  I hate my auto-correct)

Quite!

[REDSTATEWARD]

Reports from primary voting in Wisconsin.
The country may be in lockdown, but Cheryl and Terrence Moore — black natives of the Deep South — felt there was no more important place to be Tuesday than their polling site, in surgical masks and latex gloves, voting in Wisconsin’s fiercely disputed primary.
“After the polls taxes and the poll tests, the lynchings and attack dogs, our ancestors dying and people putting their lives at risk at every opportunity, not to do our part because of a virus?” said Terrence Moore, 50, a pastor and business development coordinator at a Milwaukee neighborhood chamber of commerce.

“I would betray that legacy by staying home,” said the former South Carolinian, who waited 2 1/2 hours with his wife to cast their ballots at the city’s Riverside University High School. “It would be a dishonor not to honor them in this capacity.”

The Moores said they weren’t the only ones who considered it their responsibility to turn out Tuesday, pandemic or no.
The diversity of those in line with them — black, white, Latino, Asian American, young, old, Democrat, independent, Republican — showed they were undeterred and united in purpose. “No one talked about what side they were on,” said Terrence Moore.

Los Angeles Times.

[josh]

Bernie has made a lot of money pushing socialism.
I guess he can be expected to sit back and spend his profits fixing up his many, many houses.

By you, because it is what you would do.

That you mischaracterize where most of his wealth is from is typical.

He has a second home, like most Vermonters (huh?).  Leave him alone.

His wife had an inheritance. That's what paid for the 2nd Vermont place.

He and she had a goodly amount of income from work, even without the booksales to which he attributed much of his good fortune. Most of his money came from salary and her dead parents.

But say and do whatever you like. Leave him alone or don't. Whatever floats your boat.

[josh]

Class issues are based in race.

No.  Class issues are based in economics.

The GOP has largely successfully conflated race and class to prevent class consciousness and block measures that would assist the poor.

No.

Just like that no?

Successful is the word. White people by and large vote for policies they think will hurt black people thus biting off their nose to spite their own face.

I think you give way to much credit to most white people (or humans, in general). It would require vastly more effort than most are capable of to consider the impact of policies on black people. Or help white people. Or much else.

They do vote for people who pander to them (or seem to), to the notion of putting down people of color (or as they like to put it, stop them from taking what is ours!) - but they have no concept of policy when they vote the bulk of the time.

And yes, for the most part, white people are racist as fuck. But even more they think they are self-serving as fuck. They are mostly wrong.

[facilitatorn]

People are dying and losing their jobs, but our president's principal focus is on grabbing as much silverware as possible before he's evicted from the White House.

[facilitatorn]

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1935575

Seems like even trump’s CDC is backing out of the snake oil business. They must not trust Dr. Oz over there for some reason.

[barton]

Take fast food out of inner cities.

Slap yourself and take a seat.

Kid never disappoints.  In seven words he tells us:

No clue what food deserts are,  or why they happen.

Only a paternalistic top-down approach will keep those foolish poor folks from harming themselves.

And don't forget his total absence of a sense of irony in a Trumpista preaching about fast food.

[barton]

Reports from primary voting in Wisconsin.
The country may be in lockdown, but Cheryl and Terrence Moore — black natives of the Deep South — felt there was no more important place to be Tuesday than their polling site, in surgical masks and latex gloves, voting in Wisconsin’s fiercely disputed primary.
“After the polls taxes and the poll tests, the lynchings and attack dogs, our ancestors dying and people putting their lives at risk at every opportunity, not to do our part because of a virus?” said Terrence Moore, 50, a pastor and business development coordinator at a Milwaukee neighborhood chamber of commerce.

“I would betray that legacy by staying home,” said the former South Carolinian, who waited 2 1/2 hours with his wife to cast their ballots at the city’s Riverside University High School. “It would be a dishonor not to honor them in this capacity.”

The Moores said they weren’t the only ones who considered it their responsibility to turn out Tuesday, pandemic or no.
The diversity of those in line with them — black, white, Latino, Asian American, young, old, Democrat, independent, Republican — showed they were undeterred and united in purpose. “No one talked about what side they were on,” said Terrence Moore.

Los Angeles Times.

Stirring,  lovely,  and irrelevant to the obvious problem.   Take 180 polling stations in a largely Democratic city and divide by 36.  One station in 36 remains open.   Clearly,  some will not be able to vote in those circumstances.  Not rocket science.   

The only way Rethug candidates can win is by cheating.   Which is why they fought the election postponement tooth and nail in court.   

[kiidcarter8]

The country may be in lockdown, but Cheryl and Terrence Moore — black natives of the Deep South — felt there was no more important place to be Tuesday than their polling site, in surgical masks and latex gloves, voting in Wisconsin’s fiercely disputed primary.

“After the polls taxes and the poll tests, the lynchings and attack dogs, our ancestors dying and people putting their lives at risk at every opportunity, not to do our part because of a virus?” said Terrence Moore, 50, a pastor and business development coordinator at a Milwaukee neighborhood chamber of commerce.

“I would betray that legacy by staying home,” said the former South Carolinian, who waited 2 1/2 hours with his wife to cast their ballots at the city’s Riverside University High School. “It would be a dishonor not to honor them in this capacity.”




Amen.